Portable toilet assembly

ABSTRACT

A portable toilet assembly has a tent and a pedestal device. The tent is composed of multiple frame loops and a cover mounted on the multiple frame loops together. The tent is collapsible. The pedestal device is composed of an upper armrest frame, a lower holding frame and a receptacle mounted on the lower holding frame. The upper arm frame and the lower holding frame are detachable from each other and respectively foldable. Thereby, the portable toile assembly can be disassembled conveniently and respectively diminished in its parts to ideal portable sizes.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a portable toilet assembly, and moreparticularly to a portable toilet assembly that is pitched and struckeasily and conveniently.

2. Description of Related Art

People camping in wilderness usually feel embarrassed when they have toanswer their natural calling because they have to release in an openenvironment without any covering. Even worse, they have to resolve theirnatural calling in the rain when the weather is rainy. In order toresolve the foregoing unavoidable problems for people who likewilderness camping, a portable toilet assembly has arisen to provide aprivate shelter to mitigate or obviate them.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The main objective of the present invention is to provide a portabletoilet assembly that is conveniently struck and transported.

Further benefits and advantages of the present invention will becomeapparent after a careful reading of the detailed description withappropriate reference to the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematically perspective view of a portable toilet assemblyin accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a foldable tent in the portable toiletassembly in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a pedestal device in the portable toiletassembly in FIG. 1, wherein the pedestal device is composed of amounting structure and a receptacle;

FIG. 4 is a partially exploded perspective view of the mountingstructure in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is an operational perspective view of an upper armrest frame inthe mounting structure, wherein the upper armrest frame is folded; and

FIG. 6 is an operational perspective view of a lower holding frame inthe mounting structure, wherein the lower holding frame is folded.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

A portable toilet assembly in accordance with the present inventioncomprises a tent and a pedestal device. The tent is composed of multipleframe loops (at least three frame loops) and a cover detachably mountedon the multiple frame loops together. The tent is collapsible. Thepedestal device is composed of an upper armrest frame, a lower holdingframe and a receptacle mounted on the lower holding frame. The upperarmrest frame and the lower holding frame are detachable from each otherand respectively foldable. Thereby, the portable toile assembly can bedisassembled conveniently and respectively diminished in its parts toideal portable sizes.

With reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, a preferred embodiment of the portabletoilet assembly comprises a tent 1 and a pedestal device 2.

The tent 1 is dome-shaped and has four sides. The tent 1 is composed offour frame loops 11 combined together and a cover 12 detachably mountedover the four frame loops 11. Each frame loop 11 is substantiallyegg-shaped and has a narrow top, a broad bottom and two side rodsconnected between the narrow top and the broad bottom. When the frameloops 11 are assembled and connected to each other, each side rod of oneframe loop 11 is pivotally connected to a side rod of an adjacent frameloop 11 by sleeves (now shown) or the similar. All the narrow tops ofthe frame loops 11 are inclined slightly inward, and all the broadbottoms of the frame loops 11 abut the ground. Thereby, a dome-shapedtent frame with the four sides is achieved. The cover 12 is made ofwaterproof cloth and shaped into a dome shape corresponding to the tentframe. Therefore, the cover 12 has four faces, an entryway 121 formed inone face of the cover 12 and a door leaf 122 covering the entryway 121.The cover 12 further has a zipper 123 attached between edges of the doorleaf 122 and the entryway 121 to keep the door leaf 122 on the cover 12without fluttering with the wind. When the tent 1 is disassembled, thecover 12 is separated from the tent frame and foldable to become a smallpack.

With reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, the pedestal device 2 comprises amounting structure, a receptacle 23, a seat pad 24, and a lid 25. Themounting structure is composed of an upper armrest frame 21 and a lowerholding frame 22 detachably combined with each other.

The upper armrest frame 21 comprises two U-shaped arms 211, two T-shapedconnectors 212 and an extending rod 213. Each U-shaped arm 211 is acurved tube and has a front end, a rear end and a middle portionextending between the front end and the rear end. Each T-shapedconnector 212 has a tube rotatably sleeving the rear end of one U-shapedarm 211 and a short tube vertically attached to a middle periphery ofthe tube. The extending rod 213 has two ends respectively inserting intothe short tubes of the two T-shaped connectors 212 to achieve the upperarmrest frame 21. By engaging the T-shaped connectors 212 between thetwo U-shaped arms 211 and the extending rod 213, the two U-shaped arms211 enable to pivotal inward to make the upper armrest frame 21 foldableto diminish its size. The folded upper armrest frame 21 is shown in FIG.5.

The lower holding frame 22 comprises two H-shaped stands and twofoldable connecting strips 222. Each H-shaped stand has two feet 221 anda middle bar 224 extending between the two feet 221. The two foldableconnecting strips 222 symmetrically connect between the middle bars 224of the two H-shaped stands. Thereby, the lower holding frame 22 isachieved. Each foot 221 on the H-shaped stand has a top insertion 223correspondingly and detachably engaging the front end or the rear end ofthe U-shaped arm 211 of the upper armrest frame 21 by means of wedging.Moreover, each foldable connecting strip 222 is composed of twoelongated pieces pivotally combining with each other at a joint and hastwo distal ends respectively and pivotally engaging the middle bar 224on the two H-shaped stands. Therefore, the two H-shaped can be pushedclose to each other by bending joints of the foldable connecting strips222 outward as shown in FIG. 6 to diminish size of the lower holdingframe 22.

With particular reference to FIG. 3, the receptacle 23 is a hexagonalbasin with two side flanges and suspended between the two foldableconnecting strips 222 by resting the side flanges on the two foldableconnecting strips 222. The receptacle 23 preferably contains areplaceable water-absorbing (or water-retaining) material, such as sandor cotton, and an odor-eliminating agent for hygiene reason. The seatpad 24 is an oval annular ring with a bottom end and has two clips 241formed at the bottom end to pivotally attach to the middle bar 224 onthe H-shaped stand that engages the rear ends of the U-shaped arms 21.Therefore, the seat pad 24 can selectively rest on the extending rod 213of the upper armrest frame 21 or mount over the receptacle 23.Preferably, the lid 25 is oval corresponding to the seat pad 24 and alsohas two clips 251 pivotally attach to the same middle bar 224 behind theseat pad 24 to selectively cover the receptacle 23.

Although this invention has been described in its preferred form with acertain degree of particularity, it is understood that the presentinvention of the preferred form has been made only by way of example andthat numerous changes in the details of construction and the combinationand arrangement of parts any be resorted to without departing from thespirit and scope of the invention.

1. A portable toilet assembly comprising: a tent 1 having at least threeframe loops 11, wherein each frame loop 11 has a narrow top, a broadbottom and two side rods and each side rod of the frame loop 11 ispivotally connected to a side rod of an adjacent frame loop 11 tocompose a tent frame; and a cover 12 correspondingly mounted on the tentframe; a pedestal device 2 received inside the tent 1 and having anupper armrest frame 21 comprising an extending rod 213 with two ends andtwo arms 211 pivotally and respectively connected to the two ends of theextending rod 213; a lower holding frame 22 detachably attached to theupper armrest frame 21 and composed of two H-shaped stands and twofoldable connecting strips 222 extending between the two H-shapedstands; a receptacle 23 mounted on the lower holding frame 22 betweenthe two foldable connecting strips 222; and a seat pad 24 pivotallyattach on one of the two H-shaped stands to operationally mount over thereceptacle
 23. 2. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 1,wherein the tent 1 has four frame loops 11 to compose the tent framewith four sides; the cover 12 has four faces, an entryway 121 defined inone face of the cover 12, a door leaf 122 covering the entryway 121 anda zipper 213 attached between edges of the entryway 121 and the doorleaf
 122. 3. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 1, whereinthe two arms of the upper armrest frame 21 are U-shaped arms 211 andeach U-shaped arm 211 has a front end and a rear end, two T-shapedconnectors 212 respectively attached between the two ends of theextending rod 213 and the rear ends of the two U-shaped arms 211, eachT-shaped connector 212 has a tube rotatably sleeving the rear end of thecorresponding U-shaped arm 211 and a short tube attached to a middleperiphery of the tube and receiving the corresponding end of theextending rod
 213. 4. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim2, wherein the two arms of the upper armrest frame 21 are U-shaped arms211 and each U-shaped arm 211 has a front end and a rear end, twoT-shaped connectors 212 respectively attached between the two ends ofthe extending rod 213 and the rear ends of the two U-shaped arms 211,each T-shaped connector 212 has a tube rotatably sleeving the rear endof the corresponding U-shaped arm 211 and a short tube attached to amiddle periphery of the tube and receiving the corresponding end of theextending rod
 213. 5. The portable toilet assembly as claimed in claim3, wherein each H-shaped stand comprises two feet and a middle bar 224extending between the two feet, each foot has a top insertion 223 toengage the U-shaped arm 211; each foldable connecting strips 222comprises two elongated piece pivotally connected with each other andhas two distal ends respectively and pivotally attached to the middlebars 224 of the two H-shaped stands.
 6. The portable toilet assembly asclaimed in claim 4, wherein each H-shaped stand comprises two feet and amiddle bar 224 extending between the two feet, each foot has a topinsertion 223 to engage the U-shaped arm 211; each foldable connectingstrips 222 comprises two elongated piece pivotally connected with eachother and has two distal ends respectively and pivotally attached to themiddle bars 224 of the two H-shaped stands.
 7. The portable toiletassembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein the receptacle 23 furthercontains water-absorbing material.
 8. The portable toilet assembly asclaimed in claim 6, wherein the seat pad 24 is an oval annular ring witha bottom end and has two clips 241 forming at the bottom end topivotally engage the middle bar 224 of the corresponding H-shaped standcombining with the rear ends of the two U-shaped arms
 211. 9. Theportable toilet assembly as claimed in claim 8, wherein pedestal device2 further has a lid 25 mounted behind the seat pad 24; wherein, the lid25 is oval-shaped to correspond to the seat pad 24 and has two clips 251pivotally engage the middle bar 224 of the corresponding H-shaped standcombining with the rear ends of the two U-shaped arms 211.